Greenpeace European Unit
Frankfurt/ Brussels – The European Central Bank (ECB) governing council today approved new bond purchasing worth €500 billion. The bank’s decision, while responding to the economic crisis triggered by the…
Brussels — As part of the European Green Deal package, the European Commission launched a new mobility strategy today. Despite a Commission claim that the mobility strategy would tackle all…
Brussels, 8 December 2020 – Tomorrow, on 9 December, the European Commission is due to publish a new strategy for smart and sustainable mobility to align the transport sector with…
Brussels, 3 December 2020 – The European Commission has published a European democracy action plan (EDAP) which delays any new EU law to end gag lawsuits, also known as Strategic…
More than 30 NGOs sent a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President David Sassoli and European Council President Charles Michel, urging them to take action…
Greenpeace EU Unit published a model of the #Anti-SLAPP directive we expect the European Commission to table in the coming months.
Brussels, 23 November 2020 – A new study published by the European Commission on the non-CO2 impacts of aviation on the climate crisis confirms that the non-CO2 impacts of air…
Brussels – The European Investment Bank (EIB) board of directors approved a climate roadmap for 2021-2025 that fails to require all companies and intermediaries receiving funding to adopt adequate decarbonisation…
In September, an open-source method to detect a gene-edited, herbicide-resistant canoladeveloped by US company Cibus, was published in the scientific journal Foods. SU Canola is not authorised for placing on…
Brussels – A leak of the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) draft climate roadmap would allow funding for climate-destroying activities, including the fossil fuels industry, motorway expansion and industrial farming.